Puberty Onset: Behavior, Neural & Hormonal Interactions

Sisk, Cheryl L.

Abstract

Funding Agency

• Agency: National Institute of Health (NIH)
• Institute: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)
• Type: Research Project (R01)
• Project #: 5R01HD026483-07
• Application #: 2199972
• Study Section: Biochemical Endocrinology Study Section (BCE)
• Project Start: 1989-12-01
• Project End: 1998-06-30
• Budget Start: 1996-07-01
• Budget End: 1998-06-30
• Support Year: 7
• Fiscal Year: 1996

Institution

• Name: Michigan State University
• Department: Psychology
• Type: Schools of Arts and Sciences
• DUNS #: 193247145
• City: East Lansing
• State: MI
• Country: United States
• Zip Code: 48824

Publications

Novak, Colleen M; Parfitt, David B; Sisk, Cheryl L et al. (2007) Associations between behavior, hormones, and Fos responses to novelty differ in pre- and post-pubertal grass rats. Physiol Behav 90:125-32

Romeo, Russell D; Richardson, Heather N; Sisk, Cheryl L (2002) Puberty and the maturation of the male brain and sexual behavior: recasting a behavioral potential. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 26:381-91

Sisk, C L; Richardson, H N; Chappell, P E et al. (2001) In vivo gonadotropin-releasing hormone secretion in female rats during peripubertal development and on proestrus. Endocrinology 142:2929-36

Parfitt, D B; Thompson, R C; Richardson, H N et al. (1999) GnRH mRNA increases with puberty in the male Syrian hamster brain. J Neuroendocrinol 11:621-7

Richardson, H N; Romeo, R D; Sisk, C L (1999) Regional changes in GnRH immunoreactivity with puberty in the male Syrian hamster. Brain Res 817:232-5

McElhinny, T L; Sisk, C L; Holekamp, K E et al. (1999) A morning surge in plasma luteinizing hormone coincides with elevated Fos expression in gonadotropin-releasing hormone-immunoreactive neurons in the diurnal rodent, Arvicanthis niloticus. Biol Reprod 61:1115-22

Meek, L R; Romeo, R D; Novak, C M et al. (1997) Actions of testosterone in prepubertal and postpubertal male hamsters: dissociation of effects on reproductive behavior and brain androgen receptor immunoreactivity. Horm Behav 31:75-88

Tang, Y P; Kashon, M L; Sisk, C L (1997) Brain region-specific regulation of luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone messenger ribonucleic acid in the male ferret: interactions between pubertal maturation and testosterone. Endocrinology 138:4740-7

Kashon, M L; Arbogast, J A; Sisk, C L (1996) Distribution and hormonal regulation of androgen receptor immunoreactivity in the forebrain of the male European ferret. J Comp Neurol 376:567-86

Kashon, M L; Sisk, C L (1995) Photoperiod times ontogeny of androgen receptor-immunoreactive cells in ferrets. Neuroreport 6:337-41